Biography
Bill Sachio Sumi was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Forced-removal chronology
The institutional biography records confinement at Pomona Assembly Center on May 9, 1942, followed by arrival at Heart Mountain on August 28, 1942. The two Sumi brothers’ biographies give different Heart Mountain arrival dates; this is the date attributed to this individual biography. These are confinement-stage milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a change to the draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.
The Heart Mountain institutional biography records that Bill Sachio Sumi was pardoned by President Harry Truman on December 24, 1947. This pardon is distinct from the earlier physical release from prison. Heart Mountain institutional biography.
